The American Hospital Association conducts annual surveys of hospitals in the United States and publishes its findings in AHA Hospital Statistics. Data on hospital type for U.S. registered hospitals can be found on the WeissStats CD.
For convenience, we use the following abbreviations:
NPC: Nongovernment not-for-profit community hospitals
IOC: Investor-owned (for-profit) community hospitals
SLC: State and local government community hospitals
FGH: Federal government hospitals
NFP: Nonfederal psychiatric hospitals
NLT: Nonfederal long-term-care hospitals
HUI: Hospital units of institutions
The technology of your choice to obtain the measures of center that are appropriate from among the mean, median, and mode. Discuss your results and decide which measure of center is most appropriate. Provide a reason for your answer.